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Results for violence (el salvador, honduras)
1 results foundAuthor: Meyer, Rachel Title: Peacetime Violence in El Salvador and Honduras: A tale of two countries Summary: The end of the Cold War did not bring about an end to violence in Central America. Today, so-called non-political violence continues to worsen. Academics and public policymakers are frequently influenced by the assumption that there is a causal relationship between the political violence of the 1980s and the non-political violence of today. By looking at the cases of El Salvador and Honduras, this working paper seeks to systematize existing claims about the causal relationship between past and present violence into two approaches. Our research shows that high levels of prolonged political violence, along with an abundance of firearms, can lead to high levels of prolonged non-political violence but not in the ways most often cited in existing literature. We propose a new model to better understand the connection between past and present violence and recommend indicators that can be used to measure variations in violence over time in contexts of protracted non-political violence. Details: Barcelona: Institut Català Internacional per la Pau, 2012. 58p. Source: Internet Resource: ICIP Working Papers: 2012/6L Accessed July 11, 2013 at: http://www.recercat.net/bitstream/handle/2072/205488/wp_2012_06_eng.pdf?sequence=1 Year: 2012 Country: Central America URL: http://www.recercat.net/bitstream/handle/2072/205488/wp_2012_06_eng.pdf?sequence=1 Shelf Number: 129378 Keywords: Political ViolenceViolence (El Salvador, Honduras)Violent Crime |